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Well I’m pretty happy with the blog re-design and pretty proud that I did it myself. There are a few minor tweaks I would like to do still, but nothing major. There are some super awesome people out there who have written amazing tutorials that helped me so much in re-designing my blog. There is NO WAY I would have been able to do any of this without them. I do not speak html code. As promised, here are the tutorials I used to help me redesign my blog:

As for the header and blog button – I have photoshop and I created them in there. For the header, I used a 10×20 template and then resized it for my blog. It was initially much bigger and beautiful, but people with smaller monitors had to scroll to view it so I decreased it’s size. I don’t really know what I am doing, so a lot of it was trial and error. The blog button, which I’m still not thrilled about, was created in photoshop using clipart I had. I sized it 150×150.

That’s it I think. I hope someone else can find these tutorials useful. They really are fantastic and helped me achieve a much nicer looking blog (if I do say so myself)!

Great job Jill! Everything looks great and I love the pear in the button! Doesn’t it feel good to have done it yourself? I still get a little giddy when I look at mine, knowing I was able to create it myself.

Thanks for sharing!! And it does look much nicer!! I have tried multiple times to do that font stuff and it never works for me. I will have to try again because you blog looks so much nicer than mine

Also, I feel like at some point you did a post about a black box your husband made for you to take pictures of you food and crafts, am I making that up. I looked a bunch of your old posts and couldn’t find it. Am I making it up??

Lauren – LOL! Thanks. I do use a blogger template called minima stretch, but it’s not an option anymore since they got the new designs. And no, it wasn’t me with the black photography box. I just take pictures on a cheapy ikea table in front of a window.

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Hi! My name is Jill. I'm married to a wonderful man, James, and we have 2 fantastic children - Kirsten and Camden. I love crafting with my kiddos, creating super fun lunches for them in the kitchen and taking pictures of them. This blog is a place for me to share all these things. I hope you enjoy!